Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back

Re:Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back by jandrese on Monday October 21, 2024 @03:42PM (#41907722)

I'm not sure I'd say the QoL for the ultra-rich has been improved that much. They have a lot more money, but end up spending it mostly on updated versions of the same stuff rich people have always spent money on. There is a serious diminishing returns on how much money can improve your Quality of Life. It can even become a burden as a level of extreme wealth can start to become its own obligation.

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Re:Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back by nosianu on Monday October 21, 2024 @04:09PM (#41908013)

That's it's not about how much money they use for their lifestyles, it's about how much of the economy you control. The more, the more interesting projects you can do - see Elon Musk. Of course he could live just as well with a fraction of what he owns now, but his control over so much is what allows him to do "cool stuff".

Being ultra-rich is more about controlling society's destiny, not about how one lives.

Whether that's hood or bad is hard to say without checking what a specific person does with all that control, and what would the others do if the control was not so centralized in so few.

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Re:Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back by jandrese on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @12:43PM (#41916113)

Shame that "cool stuff" is almost always "buy media outlets to propagandize against taxes" and "buy politicians to lower my taxes". `

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Re:Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back by znpy on Monday October 21, 2024 @04:02PM (#41907945)

> I'm not sure I'd say the QoL for the ultra-rich has been improved that much.

It has. What you’re missing is that everybody on this forum is part of the top one percent: it all depends on the scale.

On a global scale, if you live in the west, most likely you’re in the top 1%.

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Re:Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 21, 2024 @04:34PM (#41908267)

> What you’re missing is that everybody on this forum is part of the top one percent

Hardly. People here have a higher-than-one-percent chance of being in the top 1%, but it's a long way from "everyone here".

> On a global scale, if you live in the west, most likely you’re in the top 1%.

Obviously wrong. The global population is 8 billion; the US plus the EU is about 700 million.

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Re:Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back by thusky on Monday October 21, 2024 @07:54PM (#41909778)

And you have a not insignificant number of 1%ers in Saudi Arabia and China, and scattered around the rest of the world as well. Wasn't the CEO of Alibaba the richest person in the world for a minute circa 2020?

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